Democrat congresswoman Ayanna Pressley has accused Walgreens of ‘life-threatening racial discrimination’ in an impassioned speech this week.
Pressley has criticized Walgreens for closing a pharmacy in Massachusetts , an area that is largely black and latino, because of the health implications its closure will have .
She argued that mothers will be left without essential medicine for their children, and that the closure is ‘not arbitrary.’
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During a powerful speech on the House floor on Wednesday, she slammed the ‘multi-billion dollar corporation’ for their decision.
She said: “Mr. Speaker, Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy in the Massachusetts 7th. This time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85 percent Black and Latino.
“This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th.